Remote controls have tended to be practical, utilitarian devices with a well-deserved reputation for being the hardest to find when needed most. It doesn’t have to be this way in an era when users are using voice to control devices at home, on the go, in the car, or at work. Enabled by always-on voice (AOV) capability, remote controls can instead become a powerful command center to search, select and control the content, execute commands with…

A letter from Michael Hurlston, CEO and President, to Synaptics employees:

As I have been processing the series of events that have occurred over the past few months and weeks which have affected a lot of us both personally and professionally, I feel it’s important you know where I stand and what I expect from our company and you.

At Synaptics, we strongly believe in a workplace and a world where diversity and equality are…

Since its inception, Synaptics has always been a leader in how people interact with their machines – we are known widely as the HMI leader. Our lasting legacy will probably always be around our expertise in touch technology – we’re the company that brought you the original TouchPad on laptops. But we are also behind many of the capacitance sensing, display and identification technologies that are second nature to consumers now.

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